liveconfig-meta package dependencies; can it be improved

In response to the security warning

https://www.imagemagick.org/di…viewtopic.php?f=4&t=29588

I wanted to proceed and deinstall php5-imagick but could not because I had this server installed with the liveconfig-meta package. Very handy to get a server up and running quickly, but see the disadvantage:

$ aptitude remove php5-imagick
The following packages will be REMOVED:  
  php5-imagick 
0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 0 B of archives. After unpacking 558 kB will be freed.
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 liveconfig-meta : Depends: php5-imagick but it is not going to be installed.
The following actions will resolve these dependencies:


     Remove the following packages:
1)     liveconfig-meta             






Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?]

Removing liveconfig-meta, as suggested, likely will remove all dependencies with it. In search of solutions I came accross this article: https://tanguy.ortolo.eu/blog/…e8/uninstall-meta-package

So it suggests me to do:

$ aptitude unmarkauto '?reverse-depends(liveconfig-meta) | ?reverse-recommends(liveconfig-meta)'
$ aptitude remove php5-imagick

This would get rid of the dependencies until the next update of liveconfig-meta. To prevent that future upgrades re-install php5-imagick I likely need to:

$ aptitude remove liveconfig-meta

I did not want to experiment with this on a production server, so I renamed /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/20-imagick.ini and restarted apache

End of my adventure, but there remains the question, if there could be a package that installs everything but then does not oblige all packages to be present?